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- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
women—mostly Harvard undergrads—solved basic math problems for cash rewards. “While experimenting directly on executives in the field would yield interesting insights, starting in the laboratory with a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions
loan officers were more judicious about issuing loans when their bonus incentives were tied to whether the loans performed well. More surprisingly, they found that incentives actually have the power to distort loan officers' perceptions of how a loan will perform. An... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
interests by changing the expected decision delay. We characterize delay equilibria and explore how delay affects agenda preferences and, when possible, bargaining. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39907 No Margin, No Mission? A View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
four specific stages, how an established organization can bring sustainability into its core. We illustrate the model through the experience of the Ford Motor Company. Publisher's link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198704072.do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
working in this area, the field was just beginning to emerge. At the time, corporations were being taken to task for a host of moral failings—neglecting consumer and employee safety, ignoring civil rights, polluting the environment,... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
either back peaceful settlements or support warring groups and continued fighting. Attitudes toward peaceful settlement are expected to be especially obdurate for civilians who have been exposed to violence. In a survey of 1,120 Syrian refugees in Turkey conducted in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Markov chain, we are able to combine these two models to characterize the putts-to-go for the field from any distance on the green for the PGA TOUR. The results of this Markov model match both the empirical expectation and variance of... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
the World Bank gave committed officials the political opportunity to experiment with new programs in underperforming regions, which they progressively extended across the country. These incremental reforms supplied the institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses
changed how those loan officers perceived reality. The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator Money isn’t always the most powerful work motivator. In this field experiment participants were willing to pay money... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
During World War II, the predecessor to the US Central Intelligence Agency produced a secret field manual detailing how “citizen-saboteurs” could disrupt the operations of enemy organizations. In addition to inflicting physical damage,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
approximately welfare neutral. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-011.pdf Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity: Evidence from Software Development (revised) Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
record labels are increasingly experimenting with DRM-less music sales, p2p is superior in this respect. In contrast, metadata (data about data—the indexing data contained in media files such as artist or album name) is superior on... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?
human time or human understanding of complexity, I can identify the things that GPT suggests actually matter, and then iterate on those with real data and real consumers to get human-based results,” she says. Developing the right prompt Products included in the View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
problem-solving process. To pursue the efficacy of collaboration the research team developed a straightforward experiment that mirrored real-world problem-solving work. Rather than start from scratch, they customized a platform called... View Details
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
Cespedes explains a strategic process for hiring and managing an effective salesforce: book excerpt Build your Team: Recruitment And Selection From Aligning Strategy and Sales By Frank Cespedes Putting the right team on the field is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others
LinkedIn’s People You May Know (PYMK) feature, which uses an algorithm to suggest new connections to members. LinkedIn constantly improves the algorithm by introducing new versions and testing them using randomized experiments for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
are not always made in a competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that costs and constraints on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
world's foremost scholars in fields ranging from psychology to economics, sociology, and history. “Leadership is based on complex phenomena." -Rakesh Khurana As Khurana explains below, leadership—what it means, why it matters—is an... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
broader field of study. Microprocess research in organizational studies reveals implicit phenomenological assumptions that vary in the extent to which microprocesses are treated as parts of larger systems. We suggest that phenomenological... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
field studies, researchers tend to think that workers submit resumes to open positions. In fact, scholars have learned a lot about discrimination in labor markets by sending resumes to job postings to see who gets called back and who... View Details